We only have backup activity at night at this time, all to diskpool, so
I backup my diskpool to copypool every morning prior to migration for
efficiency (like you say).  So,  can you take it a little further?  How
would I track just active versions beyond that?  Eventually the offsite
tapes would contain (as they do now) a mix of active and inactive
versions, with no way of expiring inactive versions on copypool only.

I realize that a lot of installations require a copy of the entire
storage pool to ensure recovery from media failure, but not all sites
find that insurance worth the price of the tapes.  I think I have
expressed this to this list before, so I won't bore you with my whining
about this again.  But if there is an easy, viable way to achieve this
with ADSM, I would like to hear it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Colwell [SMTP:bcolwell AT DRAPER DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 1998 10:30 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Useful 'move data' options
>
> In <1A16375E84ABD111AF2200203568362F30AF AT calypso.cfr.usf DOT edu>, on
> 07/17/98
>    at 09:15 AM, "Weeks, Debbie" <debbie AT ADMIN.USF DOT EDU> said:
>
> >I agree!  This type of function might also enable me to only send the
> >active versions offsite, something we are truly interested in.
>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Hilton Tina [SMTP:HiltonT AT TCE DOT COM]
> >> Sent: Friday, July 17, 1998 8:16 AM
> >> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >> Subject:      Re: Useful 'move data' options
> >>
> >> I think another handy addition to either mov data or reclamation
> would
> >> be to move all the active files to a set of tapes, separate from
> the
> >> inactive files.  It that was done every so often it would reduce
> the
> >> number of tapes needed to restore a node.  I've had some people try
> to
> >> get me to schedule full backups to accomplish this, but I've been
> able
> >> to refuse so far.
> >>
> >> Anyone else agree?
> >>
>
> Slow down and and think this thru a little bit.  To make copypool
> tapes as
> efficiently as possible you should be backing up the disk storagepool
> frequently.  I do it 4 times a day.  Since backup storagepool is an
> incremental process it only takes the new files which are all active
> versions.
>
> Regarding enhancing move data, I know IBM already has a user
> requirement for it because I submitted one at a GUIDE conference more
> than 3
> years ago.  Unfortunately it was returned as a suggestion. Perhaps
> someone
> at IBM could look up the number so others
> can concur on it.  This is still the best procedure isn't it?
>
> --
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> Bill Colwell
> C. S. Draper Lab
> Cambridge, Ma.
> bcolwell AT draper DOT com
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